disk storage device
31Disk Defragmenter (Windows) — Disk Defragmenter A component of Microsoft Windows Disk Defragmenter in Windows 7 …
32Disk cloning — is the process of copying the contents of one computer hard disk to another disk or to an image file. Often, the contents of the first disk are written to an image file as an intermediate step, and the second disk is loaded with the contents of… …
33Storage Module Device — (SMD) was a family of storage devices (hard disk drives) first shipped by Control Data Corporation in December 1973 as the CDC 9760 40 MB (unformatted) storage module disk driveControl Data Corporation Newsletter, Summer 1977 Edition, p. 6] . The …
34Disk encryption theory — Disk encryption is a special case of data at rest protection when the storage media is a sector addressable device (e.g., a hard disk). This article presents cryptographic aspects of the problem. For discussion of different software packages and… …
35Disk Cleanup — A component of Microsoft Windows Screenshot of Disk Cleanup in Windows Vista …
36Device driver — Operating systems Common features …
37Disk compression — A disk compression software utility increases the amount of information that can be stored on a hard disk drive of given size. Unlike a file compression utility which compresses only specified files and which requires the user designate the files …
38Disk laser — Not to be confused with Laserdisc. Fig.1. An optically pumped disk laser (active mirror). A disk laser or active mirror (Fig.1.) is a type of solid state laser characterized by a heat sink and laser output that are realized on opposite sides of a …
39Device file — In Unix like operating systems, a device file or special file is an interface for a device driver that appears in a file system as if it were an ordinary file. There are also special device files in MS DOS and Microsoft Windows. They allow… …
40Disk array controller — A disk array controller is a device which manages the physical disk drives and presents them to the computer as logical units. It almost always implements hardware RAID, thus it is sometimes referred to as RAID controller. It also often provides… …
